Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1919 — GLEANED from the EXCHANCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED from the EXCHANCES

flamuel Edmonde, a prominent resident of Fowler, died Monday morning of pernicious anemia, after an extended Illness, aged 55 years. A new top price was reached for hogs in tho Indianapolis market Monday, when one lot of 40 head, averaging 241 pounds, sold at $20.85 per cwt. The president of the National Brick company states that the price of brick are soon to be cut from sl2 per 1,000 to $lO, and they may go even lower. Judge B. F. Carr Saturday granted the petition of Michael C. Mellon and Alexander Cota, charged with the murder of Mrs. Pearl Travers, ift habeas corpus proceedings, fixing their bail at $5,000 each to answer at the April term of the White circuit court. The sureties for Mellon are Aaron Blake and Tabor Spenoer and those for Cota are Joseph H. Emends and Leon Lords.—Monon News. A hog weighing 1,245 pounds on its third birthday, Friday, April 11, and said to be the largest hog in the world, raised by R. S. Thompson on his farm near Lafontaine, sold for $1,300 at auction and was bought by J. C. F. Martin and Son. The animal is a barrow of the Big Type Poland China breed. There was keen bidding at the auction between the International Stock Feed company, the Big Type Poland China association and a number of stock shippers.